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Banerjee, Mita
Color Me White: Naturalism/Naturalization in American Literature

This book explores a remarkable parallelism in American literary and legal histories: the parallel between naturalism and naturalization. At the turn of the twentieth century, with the influx of unprecedented waves of immigration, the judiciary is at a loss to define who is 'white' and who is not. In the courts of law, 'whiteness' becomes a performance of cultural assimilability rather than a biological fact. It is this same cultural code of whiteness, this book argues, around which the literature of naturalism revolves by engaging in a naturalization debate of its own. Concretely, Mita Banerjee illustrates this connection between law and literature with works by Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, and others. XI,484 Seiten, gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 237/Universitätsverlag Winter 2013)